Free Lightroom Video – 5 Tips for Custom Print Templates

Today I’m taking a different spin and giving you 5 mini tips in one video instead of just one big video. This week I thought I’d go through the custom print templates in Lightroom 3. It’s such a cool feature in that it frees you to lay out a print any way you want. Techniques and layouts that would take 10 layers in Photoshop are, basically, just drag-and-drop with the Custom Package feature. But there’s lots of little tips that help make it easier so I figured I’d put them all in one video. Enjoy!

Matt is the Vice President of Photography for onOne Software and a Tampa-based photographer. He's a best selling author of over 20 books and teaches Lightroom and Photoshop at seminars and conferences around the world.

7 Comments

If I print out a set of photos for an event I can use a sequence number to automatically identify the picture, but I would also like to make an order form
with those sequence numbers. I would also like to do similarly for quiz questions…

I’ve often wished that LR Print module would allow more than one graphic – which is the limit with the identity plate. Your idea of importing the graphics as an image into LR solves that. So simple. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. Great tip!

When a photo is in a frame with a different aspect ratio, so that it gets cropped in one direction, is there a way to drag it around within the frame to control the balance of how each end of the photo gets cropped out of the frame?